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The Works of John Marston. Volume 2

Note 342 — ACT III.[335]

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Old eds. “That they oft love their vailes; hold,” &c.—If the text is not corrupt, we must suppose that a sentence breaks off at the word “their.” Marston is fond of employing the horrid figure aposiopesis. “Vails” is intelligible on the supposition that Syphax is feeing the waiting-woman.

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